Demand more of yourself.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

People say conversation is a lost art

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school

I don't have time to read nonfiction.