Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.