I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?