We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
I also have intense relationships with furniture. . . probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.