Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.

For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.

The world has achieved the most of so far, now it is after losing everything in this race of power.

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

If you think your job requires you to endanger people, get another job.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.