Exercise 4: Listening Positions Play with my listening positions, get conscious about them and move my listening position to different places, whatever is appropriate to listen to.

Differencing: We listen to differences; we discount sounds that remains the same. To make it easy for your conversation partners train to variate your voice.

Filters like, culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations, intentions etc. take us down to what we pay attention to.

Exercise 1: Silence Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quite again.

Exercise 2: The Mixer If I am in a noisy place like a coffee bar or in nature at a lake try to identify the different noises. How many individual channels of sound can I hear? Where are they? It improves the quality of my listening.

Exercise 3: Savoring Learn to enjoy mundane sounds. It could be a tumble dryer or a coffee grinder. Try to identify repeating sound patterns or to find similar sounds.

Exercise 5: Recieve · Pay attention to the person Appreciate · Little verbal/noise feedback Summarise · very important Ask · questions afterwards

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

Anger is like ice and also quick to melt.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

There is no ˜I' in team but there is in win.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do. I don't adhere to any methods, because I simply don't believe in them. I think each pianist must ultimately carve his own way, technically and stylistically.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!