There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Laughter is a good way to hide pain"- Leo Valdez

You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.

... I've run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Every life is precious.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.