For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.

World records are only borrowed.