Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.
But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.
If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.
Right now I really enjoy writing songs.
The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.
Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.