I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.