I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Enough of anything is plenty, but plenty to some people is never enough.