Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who never manipulate.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.