It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.

Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.

Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies?

Now that I'm here where am I?

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.