I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.
You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.
I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.
I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
