Quotes from Jon Anderson

I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

This state of independence shall be!

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

If there is a worm in the heart, & chamber it has bitten out, I will protect that emptiness until it is large enough. In it will be a light the color of steel & landscape, into which the traveler might set out.

Context can influence what actions we choose to make and how we choose to make them, it can influence how these actions are judged by ourselves and others, and thus how successful and significant they turn out to be.

Geographical context is often thought about in terms of national or political territories, physical landscapes, or exotic places.

culture includes the material things, the social ideas, the performative practices, and the emotional responses that we participate in, produce, resist, celebrate, deny, or ignore. Culture is therefore the constituted amalgam of human activity – culture is what humans do.

What cultural geography seeks to do, therefore, is explore the intersections of context and culture.

Traces are marks, residues, or remnants left in place by cultural life.