I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I write emotional music.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I love doing concert music.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

Why not smile and preserve, why not let the light summon, why not spread the love, the love we all deserve

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

I don't know where the time went. I sure have enjoyed it.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

Even if one is not hungry and although eat is called HumanBeing Even though one is hungry and although does not eat is HumanBeing