There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.

I made promises. I intend to keep them.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Be Impeccable with Your Word.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.