The best performances come from a place of vulnerability and truth.

We must accept finite disappointment， but never lose infinite hope.

Life is real，life is earnest.

Music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The best way to learn econometrics is by doing—working with real data and real problems.