There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.