I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

A versifier passes through the sound

No, ” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”“I’m still not kissing you, ” Michael said.“Tease.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

I really love live performing!

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

I have a dog at home, and that's my baby. She's my girl, and I would do absolutely anything for her. She's like a child to me.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.