In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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...

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.