I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

I'd rather believe in something and be wrong, than believe in nothing and be wrong.

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

You need to build an ability to just be yourself, and not be doing something.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.