"My greatest teacher was not a vocal..." - Quote by Frank Sinatra

“You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.”

“My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.”

“Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.”

“One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”

“I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.”

“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”

“I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.”

“I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.”

“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”