I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.