A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.

But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

People will follow your example, not your advice.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

All love shifts and changes.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.