Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.