"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"

"The memory of one who is taken into the heart of a little child is kept forever green."

"Being curious is an absolute rule of life. If you don’t have that, I don’t know what you're doing in this music."

"Even while I was studying at [Manhattan School of Music], I was learning about melody and rhythm, and theory, and har…"

"You must remember that it was a different time...It was before everyone was looking into their smartphones. There wer…"

"Very often the things that we consider to be new are not new. They're just new combinations or reanimations and reima…"

"Initially, advertising slogans influenced me the most. I really liked the way that language was aggressive and immedi…"

"Willie Nelson has an ability that is particular to country music – these one-liners that set up a whole song, then ev…"

"Hidden by distance, the darkness behind the stars reached an impenetrable black density. Light, thought, and possibil…"

"There's a point when you wake up from a drunk, in perfect clarity. The synapses in your brain feel greased, and the d…"