In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila..

I've been through a lot as far as love..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong..

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory ….

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished..

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do tha….

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together..

We all see only that which we are trained to see..

You won't see Moonves on Twitter..

If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't u….

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts..

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it..

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces..