The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I have a good ear for languages.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.