Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

I prefer music that invents a universe.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Greed lessens what is gathered.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

Sing songs that none have sung

Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.

Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.