Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A Brazilian novelist best known for his book The Alchemist, which made him one of the most popular writers in the world.
On the island
Eight records
I'd like to stress the fact that they well, the records come from people that I admire. It's very easy to be an artist. It's very easy to be successful. But then to have the responsibility to use this success in benefit of other human beings that need more than you is very important. And you too and Bono are doing that.
I think that is very symbolic, that it is uh the long and riding road by the Beatles. And uh when people think about this, they think about uh woman waiting for someone … but I think that it was my dream that was waiting for me.
it was uh right after the internation, when you start to see the world as a mess, but at the same time you're glad that the world is a mess, because your head is a mess also.
We are going to Roberto Carlos, a wonderful Brazilian singer. Says, I want to send everything to hell.
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'Favourite
Talking about the meaning of life and uh questions without answers, no I choose well the the ninth symphony by by Beethoven. He was uh deaf. He could not hear himself, but he still composed the most beautiful piece of of classic music ever.
trying to explain the universe, but in a very different way, like the Beatles in in because.
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Martha Argerich and the London Symphony Orchestra
this beautiful piece by Chopin that was always underrated also by the critics.
as I'm not in the desert island, I would like to hear Shine the Corner of this wonderful person.
In conversation
Presenter asks
10:37Why would your parents have put you in a psychiatric hospital?
They done that too out of love, I think. I never blamed them for this. I think that they were desperate. … I was the typical bad boy who goes to the street gangs and and and fights and and is always in danger. … So they said, well, he needs treatment.
Presenter asks
12:22How did you escape [the psychiatric hospital] in the end?
I skipped the two times. And then what is dangerous in that situation is that you get used to be crazy. It's so comfortable to be crazy because you don't have any responsibility in life. And then it was thanks to God that another psychiatric said, don't play this game. Uh this is a very dangerous game, you're not crazy so. Take the responsibility of your life into your hands and and move forward.
Presenter asks
16:37Why did they take you in [to prison]?
I was arrested under the pretext that my lyrics were subversive. … So I saw the dangions of the Brazilian dictatorship. They took me to to torture. And then this this I cannot uh forget. This is evil. This is really evil in its pure manifestation.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
20:12Are you saying that you did get to the ultimate answer [to the meaning of life]?
The fact that my life was changing because I have only one quality, I'm not a coward person. does not mean that I had answered this question. What's the meaning of life? But the most interesting thing about this question is that you should learn how to live with this question without getting some answer.
Presenter asks
27:48Are you encouraging your readers to be self-indulgent, to be utterly selfish?
On the opposite. I don't think that we should be self-indulgent, but I think that we should be fully conscious of our uh individuality. I had uh many scars, as I said to you, because I always fought for the right to be different. So I think that I'm responsible for every single word that I put in my in my books.
“We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do … and start doing what we expect from our lives.”
“I think that the m most important quality is to have dreams. From the moment that you have dreams, of course, you can at least start fighting for your dreams.”
“It's very easy to be complicated, but it's quite difficult to be simple.”
“to be in a desert island, I think uh even if it is in the middle of the most beautiful place in the world, it is for me, I think, the the worst of torments that hell can give you.”