God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.