I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

Was the sky always this shade of magenta?

Prayer creates a bridge from your heart to God.

I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat. Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

The power of the rosary is beyond description.

If tomorrow doesn't happen, would you still do what you're about to do today? If that answer is no, you're alive, but you're not living.

He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.

If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.