There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

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.

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

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.

Education is meaningless without manners

A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

But my biggest passion is football.

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.