I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.