There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Pain is an inevitable part when you truly love.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.