One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Leaders draw out ones individual greatness

But worries are for people who can’t pull grown men apart with their bare hands.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

When you're creative and you're going for the top, nothing really matters.