“Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.”

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it’s lacking substance, and it’s difficult to find good stuff.

I’m inspired to do music. I really can’t stop unless I stop being inspired.

It’s very important that we instill some respect for the parents.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

Running helps me relieve my stress.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.

Photographs bring back the memories.

The last thing my father told me was: ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.

It’s important to make sure you move your body every day. 

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

Love is my religion.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.