Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with