If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.