I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.