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

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.

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.

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.

Even Spartacus needs a coach.

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

She was no longer theirs. She was his. And he was hers. And this was their world.

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.