Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

The artist must say it without saying it.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.