Nobody else can make the sound you make.

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'