One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like. |
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving. |
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way. |
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear. |
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. |
The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe. |
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll. |
I realize that nothing's as it seems. |
I think I'm a focus for international attention. |
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. |
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. |
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. |
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. |
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. |
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. |
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. |
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me. |
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. |
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. |