I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost--it is fought off, beaten off.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

I didn't even know guys modeled before that. I thought Fabio was the only male model, and I really didn't fit that bill.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

I love garlic, and I use it often.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

You can't deny somebody that's a hard worker. You can't deny somebody that just digs down as deep as they can.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.