I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?

Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?

I will always stand up and fight for you and fight for your jobs and fight for your families.