"I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny."

"I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool."

"I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here."

"I have those dreams that you can't put into words."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"In the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."