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

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

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.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

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