Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

There are 1, 440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.

You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.