I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I never though much about race.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.

Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

I certainly believe that having my husband be in my life has been a tremendous blessing.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

I realize I'm a mirror.

Locked in each human skull is a little world all its own.

A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

When I wrote my first blog, I got one response. Now, I sometimes get as many as 400 responses for my posts.

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.