I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.