For AGES I thought I'd wasted my CAREER doing visual effects, I WANTED to be a filmmaker. And then I've learnt at the END of it all that actually visual effects was probably the BEST training ground I could have had.
What we call WISDOM is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our BEST institutions are like young TREES growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled AWAY.
In my experience, my MUSIC has DRAWN people of all ages, which is a real wonderful thing. And at my gigs you get everyone from SIXYEAR olds to 90 year olds. And I find that really quite moving, actually.
Throughout the European MIDDLE Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the EARLY modern PERIOD, it was gradually displaced by FRENCH. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of EUROPE - aspired to be Parisian.
I'm 65 and I GUESS that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in EVERY year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. TAKE women, for EXAMPLE. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
I had a spate of being RUN over between the AGES of 11 and 13. I was quite a rambunctious child, I had a little moped I used to ride illegally. I got hit by cars THREETIMES because I was a very day-dreamy KID.
There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can TAKE it anywhere, and it HELPS me reach listeners of all ages and walks of LIFE.
Music is either sacred or SECULAR. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its GREATEST effect on life, an effect that REMAINS the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.