I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

He stopped his act to take a snapshot of that instant he would so treasure- her delightful laughter that could make him do anything, anything at all, in the world and beyond!

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

I got my lips chewed off by a dingo!

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.