To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.

He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?