People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

I can't predict the future but I'm pretty much sure of how I want it to be, how so? Because I have a dream and zero reasons not to achieve it.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

Good design is forever.