The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

There were moments in 'Malala,' I felt very moved by the storytelling, and 'pleased' would be the wrong word, but the music could be part of what moved me: that I was trying to contribute to something that was meaningful outside the realm of creative work but just more in terms of the world.

It felt real good. I just tried to stay within myself out there. I didn't want to go overboard, just work down in the zone and throw strikes.