If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

I love to be creative.

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.