I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.