Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.