“Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe.”

That’s the energy that keeps everything together – the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

Every time you play you have energy within you – universal energy.

If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it’s going to end and when it ends I’m going to do something good.

Someone once asked me… whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: “Every day!”

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

When one door opens, so does another one.

I try to be that inspiration, you know. It’s not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it’s not. People don’t have to be afraid of it; they don’t have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.