Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

I love life, I love people and I love sharing, so I would say that I'm romantic.

I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.