Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?''Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

I don't really like listening to the radio so much.