War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

The key to change is to let go of fear.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.