Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years. ”

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience. ”

Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people. ”

Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole. ”

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer. ”

One of the beauties about going solo was being able to start from scratch and say, 'What do I really want? What kind of band do I really want? What kind of live show do I really want to stage?' Without any of the baggage of being something with history. ”

I've always been the sort of person who likes to look forward and live in the present. ”

That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes. ”

Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There's something ignoble about not being willing to look at what we've found about the way the world is and trying to reconcile it with whatever you've decided to believe in for yourself. ”

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow. ”