Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

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

You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ.

If love was a crime, God would encourage us all to go to prison.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

I have not changed my position. It is the same exact thing. We can not let crazed, insane businessmen who put their bottom line ahead of the planet - And I'm talking about Rex Tillerson.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki)