I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

When we will learn to seethere is no you and me.You and me becoming we, in the world peace will be.

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

If a certain event repeats itself over and over again, it means somewhere someone has destined it

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

One genius has made many clever artists.