At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.