It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.