The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

Magic is a trick, and the trick is to believe it's real.

Why do I do it to myself? Why don't I get an ordinary job?

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?