It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

I like clothes - I like to play with clothes. I like DIY; I like to make outfit.

Lily Tomlin said something years ago, and I'm paraphrasing, that you have to find humor in everything, because by finding humor, you find humanity.

I'm getting back to my old roots.