I think there’s room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
I always stayed fit because I’m a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I’ve been immersing myself in it. I’ve felt supported by it.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I’m always a bit down. I’m not that way at all. I’m fun-loving.
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending – as if a date would really matter.
I quite like mistakes. I think they’re human.
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We’re always being drawn toward the center of it because that’s where the mystery is. What is music? It’s a journey.
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
Without the breath of real freedom we’re getting nowhere fast.
Love is stronger than justice.
Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.
Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.
Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us...