I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.
My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.
