Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.