I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.