It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.