Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut. "
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.