All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.