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

I feel very similarly. I didn't have necessarily the same exact kind of dynamic, but that means a lot when people are like that with you. Especially people like that. And I think [Phil Wood] felt a certain responsibility .

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.

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.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.