I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Prayer is our lifeline to God.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.