In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

He who can endure the worst can withstand any thing.

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.