A rainy day is a good day to be in bed with a good book - or with someone who has read one."T.K. Lukas

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.

A kingdom, or this?

I know what you're gonna think, what you're gonna ask. Percy Jackson, why are you hanging from a Times Square billboard without your pants on, about to fall to your death?

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel.

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

History depends on who is telling the story.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.