I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.

I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.