My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.