My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

Hope sinks a world of imagination.

Success isn't specially reserved for anyone

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.