I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.