If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.

I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

If you don't play to win, why keep score?