Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.(Professor Alistair Dawkins)

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it present

I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

The merchant has no country .

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.