I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

The high note is not the only thing.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.