I prefer music that invents a universe.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

By his deeds we know a man.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.