I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

God’s grace is strong enough to hold me steady through every difficulty.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

Before me, there were no moonsaults, there were no Litacanranas!

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.