It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.