I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.