It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson. " But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.
We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.
I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.
I have played a few lay saints in my time.
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.
I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. “I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.
Music should always be an adventure.
Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person, I don't spend a lot of money.
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.