It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.