In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

A smile is the light of personality.

Give your life a destination.

When you love someone, be sure that you will be loved in return.

It's important, when you see magic, to recognize it. You don't often get a second chance.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.