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

All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.

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.

To reproduce your life is to impact the world with it.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Photons have neither morals nor visas.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.