You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

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.'

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.