I am open to everything.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

Man is the centrality of God’s purpose on earth

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

Free men set themselves free.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.