What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.

Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

Hayden?""Yes, Gia?""Nothing I just wanted to say your name

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.