It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens..

Nothing works unless you do the work..

Without me there could be no everybody..

It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in eve….

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, ….

Thought is the thought of thought..

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after..

Everybody isn't everybody..

You have to invent life..

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread..

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable..

Time did not compose her..

You can't go wrong with love..

Not being happy really is my fear..

Everybody sings from their diaphragm..

I don't take myself too seriously..

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at.

The more I work the happier I am..

The Bible opens and closes with a wedding..