Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

I weep for the stupidity of my sins.

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.

Paige cleared her throat. “Hey, Taylor?” “What?” she snapped. “Um...he...maybe he can help us?” “He doesn’t seem very helpful, ” Taylor said grumpily.

Hi, I'm Day.Hi, I'm June

Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.