I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

Endeavor to live a simple life, but filled with complex love.

You know what is beautiful? A real conversation with a real person.

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do