I always wanted to do something completely different.

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

The more far-out artists, the better.

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.

I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

It takes but one person one moment one conviction to start a ripple of change.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

I don't like anything new.

I took on pension reform, health care reform, and leave reform - all of those tough issues that so many elected officials prefer to kick down the road to the next generation. But that's not who I am. I am not persuaded by what is politically popular but what is best for the citizens of Baltimore.

Dishonesty is not only the destroyer of beauty, but of what beauty creates, even out of ugliness understanding. Dishonesty is the extinguisher of understanding, and understanding is the foundation of compassion

Don't let fear of the unknown stop you from experiencing the truly fulfilling moments that life has to offer you.

When a dog bites a man that is not news because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog that is news.

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

It is also a victory to know when to retreat.

If we take a step back and look at what Snapchat is, it all starts with the camera.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.