The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I love the conversation between film and music.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The story of life depends on how well you live your life.

Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body.

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.