“Live each day as if it is your last,’ said Mahatma Gandhi. ‘Learn as if you’ll live forever.’ This is what I’m passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable.”

Undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.

I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.

I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music.

Perhaps they are chasing an illusory dream. But if you want to learn, to expand, to be of service, you will find a way.

What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.