I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.