I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.