I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.