I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.