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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.