So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Time turns our lies into truths.

Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'