I'm not really a pianist.

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I'm not really a pianist.

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

I want you to know that you are the best thing that has ever happened to my life and I will never ever allow anyone to take you from me.

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

Success is like WiFi. Found everywhere. Connected, if have a password called harwork.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

In the year 1456... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell that it will return again in the year 1758.

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Christianity is not a theory or speculation but a life not a philosophy of life but a life and a living process.

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

I am adventurous.