I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read..."

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

Don't need to stand by me, I'm enough for myself.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.