Holly Near

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.