When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs.

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.