When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.”
“Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.”