I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

Sometimes language is not enough.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I think where you play is important.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

To not care about how you look will make you look even more attractive.

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.