You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.
The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. . . . I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction. . much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.
. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.
One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.