As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

LIFE is simply COMPLICATED.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

I feel that when you want to seduce a man, you really need your legs. Since all my outfits were long dresses, I have to say that I really didn't feel sexy at all.

Of course I want to be [prime minister].

The older I get, the easier it is to just be present in the moment, and understand what a man is going through.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.