I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

When it comes to compounding, don't trust your intuition - you have no idea how powerful it is.

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.

It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.