Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.