Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

The high note is not the only thing.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

There are different ways to shop for different people.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.