When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Nothing that truly mattersCan ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.

You will give to those whom don't appreciate you, until you've had enough of accepting less than you deserve

Adventures are important things in our life, to forget about our aging.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.