Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, well, that's when you know they really mean it.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?