I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.