Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.