One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Music does not excite until it is performed.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

The model of a composer.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.

How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.