my colleagues thought i was mad, and most of them are still in new york city, 30 years on, and realen joying it. so they wouldn't have been the right move for them. but it's the one move i never regretted and noticed after i got there all the time i was in new york city i was always thinking, what if i were in kyoto or lived somewhere else, leading a radically different life, and as soon as i got to japan i never thought about maybe shy be in europe. i instantly felt at home and thought this is the life that's been waiting for me, and i finally made my way to it so a few years after i moved to japan, i was invited to drive up into the cold, dark hills behind los angeles, a little like what is behind me now to visit my heroes since miss boyhood, leonard cohen, and i was really impressed and moved to find this man who had taste evidence assault the pleasure another the world and could be living anywhere in any high style he wanted, had chosen to become a zen monk and was living for five and a half years in this quite severe, foreign bidding monastery up close to the snow, doing really grueling