I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

There are no musically untalented people.

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.