Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

Compose first, worry later.