My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.