“As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it’s a good one, but I’ve got to work at it occasionally.”

I’ve always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I’m really happy.

While I’m singing complete gibberish to my son when he’s in his crib, I’ll occasionally think, ‘This song I’m making up is actually pretty good.’

Having a kid made me realize, “I have to take care of this kid, but I can’t have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I’ve got to work.”

Visualize success, but don’t believe your eyes.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It’s an amazing feeling.

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

Time is the most valuable thing we have, and yet we waste it so easily.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.

It’s very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.