Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes me hate the violence. But there's beauty in violence if it's put over the right way.
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
He who tastes not, knows not.
I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.