I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am.

Accepting oneself, in all your glory and in all your shortcomings, is a major point in becoming your best possible self.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

To drink away sorrow.

Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.