Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn I must do it by listening.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

For some students school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

My mom's a concert pianist so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight I started writing my own songs and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically which is a big influence on me I think.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music and develop my ear and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life and I'm the one who was on the other end.