I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

He’s weak, afraid and dumber than your dog. Besides, you gonna bet the farm on a pig?The Alien Club

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.