Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Luck often sides with the able.

In Marriage You Learn To Give Up The "Me ness for We ness!

Never taught to lose, but only win.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

I want to make America great again. I'm going to be able to do it. I don't believe Hillary Clinton will.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

I honestly think that my sincerity lies with my country and each and every individual who knows me will agree with this fact.

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.