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

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

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.

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.

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.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

We live but a fraction of our lives.

Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.