There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill the prey or be killed: it’s in my genes.A chimera, that's what I am. And this is my story.

-I am alergic to these flowers.-I know.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.