Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Its a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because thats where your community is.

Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.

John’s standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis,

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.