I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

The music is not the truth.

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.