Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.
Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.
Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling. . . If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.
It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself.
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.
The experiences that technology provides is very, very important, rather than just the backroom aspects of running things. It's just as important to focus on the consumer interface and how we're experiencing things.