I’ll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone.

You don't have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there's a big difference between the two.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.

We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.