John Zorn
People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.Collection: Psychics
I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.Collection: Art
You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.Collection: Believe
I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.Collection: Angel
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the wayCollection: Writing
I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.Collection: Proud
The idealists will always be in society, and we will surviveCollection: Idealist
Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.Collection: Thinking
I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.Collection: People
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.Collection: Writing
I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.Collection: Doubt
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazyCollection: Crazy
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any wayCollection: Humor
That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly aboutCollection: Cities
I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.Collection: Spiritual