Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.
I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.