If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.

Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.

I'm here to tell you I do [have a baby bump]. I am not pregnant, but I have had three kids and there is a bump.

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.