If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Darling, whose book is this to be?""Ostensibly yours, my sweet""I see -- rather like my life since I met you?""Yes darling

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Do your little bit of good where you are

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.