If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

Hard work is what keeps the ship moving.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so Im able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.