My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best musicians in the business.

Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.