"The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument."

"Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun."

"When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice."

"I have selective hearing."

"The foundation of joy is a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

"It is a enduring truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are."