"Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music"

"Music is my religion"

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"