The muse doesn't come without being called.
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.
What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.