"This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer"

"Music is my religion"

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"

"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"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

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

"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"

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

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

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"