When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.