I think politics come out of psychology.
I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.
I don't get involved in record label politics.
I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed ...
Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to g...
People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder ...
What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark t...
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.
I was different from most young conductors today.
I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
