When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I'm not really a pianist.

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

When you have running goals you have hope and when you have hope you have everything.

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

Don't wear perfume in the garden unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

True time is four-dimensional.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Democracy passes into despotism.

When nobody around you seems to measure up its time to check your yardstick.