I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Music is an experience, not a science.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

The way to send a clear message that you are ready for better people in your life is the kick the rascals to the curb.

Mother are wife are saints, If they are not together

It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?

Xena, I'll always love you, but I know I have to let you go.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)