You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

To finish the moment to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1, 800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.