You have to look good.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

The reservist is twice the citizen.