Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.