As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

If you consistently surround yourself with winners, winning would become the only option in all your endeavors.

In the West, we are very goal oriented. We know where we want to go, and we are very directed in getting there. This may be useful, but often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route.

The bliss of blessedness!

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.