We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.

I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.