Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

So many hilarious scenes and seductions!

Love is the universal language.

It perplexes me. How can one sad incident compensate ten happy incidents? Why? Happiness is losing.

For the first time in her life, Jocelyn felt the hot shame of being underdressed for a party.

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.