I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

Some can go further than others.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.