What I feel the most confident about as a teacher, whatever my strengths and weaknesses are. The fact that I got to be around those people, I feel like that I have something to offer because of that blessing. Being around them a little bit... I'm not them. I'm certainly not trying to compare myself to them. But in lieu of them being able to impart something, the fact that I had so many people like that that were kind to me and talked to me was invaluable.

I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.