I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

If people don't believe the source, then we aren't going to change their minds. We just won't.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.