World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.
If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.
Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together, there's not really much we can't do.
I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.
The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.
We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.
I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea!
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.