I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

A man without a wife is like a house without a roof.” - Abdulazeez Henry Musa.

In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.