Saving was slow and painful.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

Nature was my kindergarten.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

sometimes you have to dismantle your life to find your passion.

Greatness has never been a product of a mind that sees itself as being very unlucky in life.

Be a crazy beloved to find your crazy lover.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

I trust myself, and I trust Life to support and protect me.

I really love him [Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in Game of Thrones] - I love watching that character. It's quite phenomenal how people love to hate that character.