I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy
Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one. ' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
There's still time to change the road you're on. . .
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.
Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.