i think there are certain lev els of commitment of time i wouldnt call it a nervous breakdown but it was something along those lines it is on how important empathy is for human life and indeed how the arts can help us empathise there are so many interesting things in faith we create these rituals around our lives for all sorts of reasons good reasons not just out of habit this last week ive been very much concerned because my novel is going to be published next year its in the form of a diary of a priest on a retreat talking about how he has lost his faith if you are one of the worlds greatest pianists with beethoven chopin and debussy at your fin gertips what more can you want from life no but i always loved words also its probably never been known until now that the polymath hough 55 has an india connection like in nazi germany or apartheid south africa it also depends on the time it was the first time that the idea of an aristocracy being always on top and always in charge was challenged so the whole book is trying to create how he feels really his mood through his memories i read on this thing points to his 55inch smartphoneq i dont think of faith as something thats like a rock that never changes qwhat are you reading nowa he wasnt sort of a party man my principal commitment is playing the piano of course im not dogmatic about it im just not convinced that making things easy makes them attractive he feels like he hasnt a thing worth living for he took 10 or 12 secondhand books he owned and traced the people who had owned them before but writing music and writing words maybe there are times in history where we have to be a bit more outspoken mumbai i have read quite a bit over the years of anthony de mello an indian jesuit priest who wrote a lot about the way hinduism and christianity can speak to each other there is a ceremonial aspect to human life which is very important painting is just a hobby abouta so composing is something ive been doing this idea that there is a separation between composers and performers is really since wwii i think its something thats very fluid always changing so its his story the stories of the previous owners and also what the books were about and i was watching so much television maybe six hours a day i have tried to make up for it since but it was a lot of wasted time hes been blackmailed by a prostitute people who were composers were also performers and vice versa do concerts have a larger meaninga some people like to make political statements out of concerts and then im reading a book on empathy by someone who was the head of i think