I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

Optimism is a competitive advantage.

The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus you won't have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on.

Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

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.