Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

It’s your life

Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

I'm much more interested in shows that maybe not everybody loves, but a lot of people REALLY love. That's how I am as a person. I'm as extreme as the roles in the shows that I like to be on.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

California, the department store state.

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.