I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home. '
I didn't really want to give up music.
Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world. . . That in itself gives you a different perspective.
It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!
I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing chose me and this is what I must do. I have no choice but to write, and to write, and to write, because my very life depends on it. And to assume that, of course, everyone in the entire universe wants to read what I've written.
Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our "belief waves" ripple through the quantum fabric of the universe to become our bodies and the healing, abundance, and peace-or disease, lack, and suffering-that we experience in life. And just the way we can tune a sound to change its patterns, we can tune our beliefs to preserve or destroy all that we cherish, including life itself.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.