I love to SIMPLIFY the ragas and USE them in my MUSIC as much as possible.

I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my BESTSELLER, 'The Plant PARADOX' had just come out. He was wild about the BOOK, and apoligized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so MANY years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha's advice to 'chop wood and carry water.'

I LOVE grocery SHOPPING. It's one of my favorite THINGS. I don't want to BECOME an ordering-food-online PERSON.

I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the GUYS and watch SPORTS... I like to COOK - I'm like the girl NEXT DOOR.

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and SAID: 'Abbey's so CLEVER, it's a total WASTE if she follows her dream'. But I never WANTED to do a JOB I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I THINK a LOT of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you TAKE little slivers of brass or copper and PUT them between each LETTER.

I try to fix things between the ASIAN COMMUNITY and the ENGLISH community. There are always GOING to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have TRIED to break that barrier.

There is a WORLD of DIFFERENCE between foods fortified with synthetic vitamins and minerals, and eating VEGETABLES, FRUIT, and other whole foods full of vitamins and minerals in their natural form.

As I, as a WORKER, came to KNOW them, the AIMS of German trade unions were political, and there were a NUMBER of various trade unions with varied political VIEWS.