I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.

All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.

I like being able to be a man.

I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.