"I am the complete optimist. But I'm also a very quiet, internal processor—a guy who kind of takes things in. I think …"

"I’ve been playing for 38 years, and I will take lessons until I'm in the grave. There's always something to learn. We…"

"I think what happens with classical music is that there is a concrete expectation of how it's done. For some people, …"

"Melody is what makes a song a memory."

"Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Tho' there's one motor gone, We can still carry on,…"

"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…"

"My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflect…"