Put positive energy out into the world. If everybody did that, we would be in harmony.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I always survive. And I don't let it stop me.

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

Love is all that matters.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words, labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.