“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.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It’s not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It’s about our beliefs and expectations. It’s about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.

Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.