I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important.

Open your heart.Tear it apart.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

What await you

Be kind, for the other is not another, but your mirrored kine.

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?