I don't think about the audience. I think about me, and I think about how grateful I am that I blundered into that group of whimsical, wild, otterish-type people that are in there, all of them nutty and all of them intense.
Myoan Eisai, a Japanese monk, came across it while travelling there in the 12th century; he brought seeds back to Japan and wrote a book extolling green tea's benefits, describing it as " the elixir of the immortals" .
The early way-stations in a career are often marked by chance: a particularly encouraging boss, say, or an assignment that leads you off in an unexpected but defining direction.
The acting chief commissioner of prisons, Little Dinizulu Mtengano, said the band came into being when he bumped into a group of musical young prisoners.