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

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

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

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.

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

Set fire to the broken pieces

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.