I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

I want to give people easy things to wear.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.