You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

It's good to feel attractive on the outside, but being smart and confident on the inside is what counts.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

Happy endings are still endings.

Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.