The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.

Life is like a Book, Everyone has their own new chapters

Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.

People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.