I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

Of course, ” the cabbie said, “you don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

No matter what our situation is, there's always a way to celebrate life and there's always a way to start again.