Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."