Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly.