Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

Put love in everything you do. If you can't, then maybe you shouldn't do.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.