I guess the two Manifesto Communicating Vessels Mad Love and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Aside from what it teaches you there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Thought is the wind knowledge the sail and mankind the vessel.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels and does not ask for silver ones but He must have clean ones.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.