People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

The glory of life is strength of existence.

A lot of people fail to succeed in life because they see temporary negative situations as permanent conditions in their lives.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'