I think we're all pretty odd.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.