Music is everything; without it, we [people] are nothing. We're just living vibrations of molecular tinglings, and without music we'd explode into nothing and go down a quantum hole.

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.

If you're on to something but you start repeating it, that's the end of your career.

... To be in time means to change.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

[I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.