No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs..

Tempo ... now there's a big word..

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo..

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled….

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper..

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo..