As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches

Why . . . would a penguin be in a piss pot?

Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.