Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

She didn't pick her way over the terrain like she was afraid of slipping on the ice...She glided over it with long confident strides. Her hands were in her vest pockets. Her eyes were Susannah.

That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.