Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

I listen to everything.

Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag.

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust.

For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.

Change is one of the most vibrant elements we can use to create a different tomorrow.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

We have first lady Michelle Obama on the show tonight. As you'd expect, security's been pretty tight. On my way in I got five pat-downs, and that was just from Joe Biden.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.