Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Whatever inspires you fires you.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

I'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.

The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!