"If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day."

"I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth."

"Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently."

"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."

"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"It is a enduring truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."