I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
I wanted to go to grad school for philosophy, but I couldn't hack it in college, at least I couldn't at that level.