Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

America may be entering it’s Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.