Sometimes language is not enough.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I think where you play is important.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I am not scared of making mistakes.

To step into God’s will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.