So, is there a "new economy?" The answer is: It depends. It depends on how you define new economy, and it depends on where you live.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.

I love to see people recognized [me on scene].

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

Hearing the blues changed my life.