I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

Believe everything the Word says about you

I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.