Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

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.

Love is a complete mystery in the lives of many because they keep expecting it to come from others to them.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch. I fell to fast - I feel too much.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.