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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.