I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.