I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Nature has different times.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. Its probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

What matters the most is what you do for free.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

There's no room for softness... not in Sparta. No place for weakness. Only the hard and strong may call themselves Spartans. Only the hard, only the strong.

Compassion is a two way street.

I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood.

I'm really busy, but I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it.

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.