While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.

You do this often?" she asked."Drink or hijack women?

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

I had to help them. There was no choice.

If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.