Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world

Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.