The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many.

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

Hits are for squares.