Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.

Happiness is a joyful gratitude.

O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.

Last warning. I don't play nice.

When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it!

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.