Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I love to work with young kids.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

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

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.