Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.