I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Only one music comes out of me.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost....

The best place to get help is from yourself.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.

We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.