I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Men did stupid things when they got romantic ideas in their heads.

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.