I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

You will have to defy the odds, for you to become extraordinary.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.