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.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

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

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 is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

And after winter folweth grene May.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.