I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.