I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!

How far back does one's memory of someone go?

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.