Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons. . . some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
Sometimes dangerous paths are the only paths leading to the safest paths. In these cases, do not hesitate to take the dangerous roads!
But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.
To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.