Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

You can't chop down a symmetry

I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.

I love today, it is a sacred time.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.