I don't need time, I need a deadline.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

While there's life, there's hope.

Awe is what moves us forward.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.