Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
The "star' status, it just doesn't mean much to me. Mostly I'm just around home and doing my thing and I feel pretty regular.
World music is music from everywhere: music that creates bridges, music that unites hearts and cultures, music that brings peace.
Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh. "
Kirtan is for all people. There are no experts, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan allows us to enter into a mystery world-a world where all the logic of our minds, all the condition and learning are left outside. And in this mystery, we create a temple inside of our hearts, a place of refuge, a place of love, a place of just being.
I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am.
Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space — digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.
I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.
So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.