I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

I am from the planet of elegance.

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

Bless the world with your positive thoughts, with your positive desires, with your positive words, and with your positive actions.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.

The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

I'm excited about our rising generation.