I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.