I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

One gets ‘headaches’, because he gives headache to others.

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

The world belongs to passionate driven people.

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

All my albums always go with the times.