I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow. "
I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.