The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it.

Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.