While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

when you’re the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they’ve let you go.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.