I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Damen's The One. Always has been. Always will be.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.