You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff
I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that - writing pleasure without the anxiety of "audience" or "grade" or "success" - is a kind of impetus toward the unfamiliar.
As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.