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.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. 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've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.