Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff. As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy. Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again. The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America. Having children really changes your priorities. A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now. We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30. Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people. The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them. But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music. I think serial monogamy says it all. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.