Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Its not bragging if its true.