My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

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.

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.