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

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.