I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

Love is just a word for him, where she means a world to him!

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.