I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself.

I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.

Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative".

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

We are all geniuses when we dream.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.