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

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.