“At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.”
“I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.”