"It's really fun to create something that touches the world."

“It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.”

Source : "Ukulele Days" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.

“The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.”

Source : Harry Vardon (1922). “Progressive Golf”

“The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.”

“The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

“Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.”

Source : Anna SEWARD (1799). “Original Sonnets, on various subjects; and Odes paraphrased from Horace, by Anna Seward. Second edition”, p.14

“I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.”

Source : "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

“All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.”

“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”