“Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music”

“I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.”

“But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.”

“It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness. ”

“As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.”

“World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.”

“The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.”

“Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.”

“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.”

“It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.”

“I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.”