The more one judges, the less one loves.

Love me with open arms and I will love you with Open HEART

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.