I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

He who has the gold makes the rules.