I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.

Our government is focused on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity and on creating the right conditions for Canadian businesses.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.

I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

I'm in the public eye. I'm recognised a small bit more. That's part and parcel of it.

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

You're like a wrong answer to the unpredictable question. Busy asking for certainty, you're like the wrong answer to which I am compelled to attempt, knowing that it won't be correct hoping to score full marks.

The camera cannot lie but it can be an accessory to untruth.

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

I think you have to try and fail because failure gets you closer to what youre good at.

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church.