… If the art — music in my case — is a real devotion for you, suffering is never an issue. I consider myself the happiest man on this sometimes sick planet. I feel my life's path was determined way before my birth and this always given me comfort to be mentally and psychologically stable, even if for the majority of people - “…the artist has to be crazy…” And certainly we are… Fortunately… But at a different level, often incomprehensible to most humans…

— Christophe de Voise
(from interview, New York 1997)