Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

It is not a band. It is an idea.

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?