Music is a means of rapid transportation.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

YOU are the next big thing.

No, never regret destroying something written. Some things are best left hidden, especially if they can seriously hurt someone if they are found.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul.

Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.