Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.