I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Find a need and fill it.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Have you ever heard the earth breath?

I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.