Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

I think very few people in Canada are seeking - to regulate any public expressions of individuals' religions.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

There is no place where God is not.

It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.