It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Now everybody has some secret goals in life.

Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.