A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge.

Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make.

In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all these reasons, the helots hated the Spartans bitterly.

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.

I've been very active in Missouri.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.