I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

