You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

We are not consciousness

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

There is no such thing as a hate crime.

Hillary [Clinton] got defeated by the alt-right or by white supremacism or what have you. And they continue to lie to themselves, as does the entire Democrat Party.

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.