I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Even the darkest cloud cannot obscure the brightest light.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

I've sort of grown into my cuteness.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.