You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Music is an experience, not a science.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

History is the insight to foresight

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

Tact is good taste in action.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

The entire world has one goal, and that is the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, we want to achieve that peaceably, but all options are on the table.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.