Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

All causes shall give way: I am in bloodStepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.