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.

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

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.

A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.