To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts … at least momentarily.

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.