If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read..."

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

The work of memory collapses time.

Does Hallmark make a “Sorry I tried to drink your blood and touched you in a vaguely inappropriate manner” card? I settled for “How much do you remember?

Cut your big mountain into smaller hills, and then start to climb. Before you know it, you're done!

The end of her life was only the beginning of her story.Sweet Sleep

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.