People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

It doesn't matter how much money we have or how much we own here on Earth-we have to die and leave it all-that's the plain truth

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.