“I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.” — Jackson Browne Quote

“I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.”

“So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.”

“The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.”

“My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.”

“I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.”

“Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop, it slows down any momentum you had.”