I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

You can't chop down a symmetry

Terrified, yes. But I run toward the fire now. Not away.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

I am the servant of my score.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.