Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

Reputation is what men and women think of us

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

I'm afraid I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. You're on your own, girl.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here