I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

All that is not God is death.

LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise, then Loved one must be the inspiration!

Success is survival.

I don't know why I go to extremes.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.