Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

You can't chop down a symmetry

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.