I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

I never felt like I had a mother.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.