No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.