When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!