In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

I find everything a struggle.

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

Feelings don't have logic, hence one must not question Why & How!

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

It is proven that cars can affect your health.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Where were they when the Russians went down?