When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

The most important thing in your life is to be happy, to be patient and to learn to love life and do everything you can.

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

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