My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

our love likestepping on to a planesitting down in a carwalking on unknown land will either take us to where we belongor throw us into darkness

Moral writing is boring.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.