I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.