Composition has almost always been solitary.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Little James Herondale, age two, was in fact holding a dagger quite well. He stabbed it into a sofa cushion, sending out a burst of feathers. "Ducks, " he said, pointing at the feathers.

It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.

Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & REJUVENATE!

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.