No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.