Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.

Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?