Ludovico Einaudi

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.

On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.

I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to Bach, I found a deep spirituality and felt elevated above the human level. Yet the feeling and emotions attached to popular music speak to us far more personally, and I couldn't leave that behind.

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.