I think people should digest work, not encounter it. You need to bring it in. You need to eat it.

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

I have a need to toss things out every few years, to throw things in the air.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand...

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

I just try to control what I can control.

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

My life... I'm really happy with what I've got. If I get more things, I will be happy, but if not, I won't be frustrated.

Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

I'm grateful for what I have and the people around me.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness.

My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

When you focus on the important things and keep your head, that's when good things will come to you.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

When I wake up in the morning, I just take 10-15 minutes and just chill in there, eyes closed, and just visualize and meditate.

One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our...

I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either it's working or it isn't working.