I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.

Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?