I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.
Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.
I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.
