The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!

I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.