The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.