I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.

Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

I still don't know how to read music.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The only way through death is death itself.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.