Passion and frigidity are like milk and coffee. They can't be perfect without each other...

The only difference between a saint and a pervert is Hypocrisy.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.