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.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Nature is not human hearted.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

One can't be free without action.

Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second

Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.