I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.