The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Music does not excite until it is performed.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

The model of a composer.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.Be yourself!

Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.