The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in faith for a reality that is intangible.

We are products of their weaknesses or strengths.

If your content is good, your career just started.

Rule No. i is don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is it's all small stuff.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit.