I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!

One on God's side is a majority.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.