Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't, " I told him."Why not?""Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

I'm at the stage in my pregnancy where I don't feel pregnant. You feel very, 'Oh yeah, I'm pregnant, ' because you're over the morning sickness and it's not too uncomfortable. It's fun.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.