The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.

The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour or if I go travel somewhere by myself, that's when I take the most photos.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be.

The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.