Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

My dad's a professor of medicine my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.