"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."

"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

"You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."