I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

There are things in life you hope to do some day - like ride in a hot air balloon or go to Paris- and there are things that you know you will never do because, in a nutshell, the desire isn't there.

Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?