The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

Every new day is a divine order.

Being normal?1 I have never had this experience.

i thank the universe for takingeverything it has takenand giving to meeverything it is giving-balance

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.