When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.
Children be comforted, I am well.
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work. . . . When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.
Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.