Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

See each day as an investment in the future and be willing to do today what you wish to experience in the future.

Where are your clothes? And do not pretend you do not know. I can accept that you may not know if you killed a man, but every girl always knows where her clothes are.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

The best person I know is Myself.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

Peeta?" I creep along the bank. "Well, don't step on me.