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I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?'

The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.