I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

A hungry man is an angry one.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.