I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

The Obama experiment has failed.

I love maxi dresses, I feel so great when I put on a maxi dress, big earrings and sandals.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.