I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing..

I have this strength that comes from knowledge..

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz..

Are you making life or is life making you?.

As you are, you see everything else..

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air..

Power is intoxicating..

You can't be what you can't see..

Politics is who gets what, when, how..

Music is the greatest communication in the world..

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're….

Confidence and hope do more good than physic..

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord pro….

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love..

... it took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you deal with an audience as a bunch of peo….

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three..

It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I a….

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship..