I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

When you walk through the darkness, God shall be your light!.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.

I never watched wrestling, I was never a fan of wrestling really.

It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.