You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

I don't know anything anymore

Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them.