The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I love the conversation between film and music.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.