I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Believe me, I’ve lived long enough to know that no matter how stable a life may seem, there’s always something that can change all of that in a blink of an eye.

You are all I ever need.

I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies.