Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

God is the fountain of all living waters.

Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.