Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.