I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.