Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

Put positive energy out into the world. If everybody did that, we would be in harmony.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I always survive. And I don't let it stop me.

Love is all that matters.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

Fear is all in the mind

Good influences are positive, and they see the good in even bad situations.

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.