Libraries are the pride of the city.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.