Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

I don't think they should be against the NFL because the NFL, those are two big games. I don't think it would be good for the NFL and I don't think it would be good for the debates.

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.