I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.