The music is not the truth.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people

O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.