There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

We will have to work hard to rest.

To sleep and being able to. RareTo sleep and deserve it. Rarer.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi.