As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music."

"There are as many ways to live life as there are people on the planet."

"I know when an album of mine is going to be useful in people's lives because I know what the emotional content is."

"I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity."

"I don't think we're put on this planet to experience it from nine to five."

"I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don't let anyone talk us out of our truth."

"Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible."

"There's a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it."

"A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp."

"It's really strange, but they speak to me -- the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people's music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul."