I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.

It was a woman who drove me to drink - and you know I never even thanked her.

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.