When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

David James Elliott

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

Uwe Boll

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

Francois Hollande

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Mahatma Gandhi

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

Stanley C. Gault

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Keith Richards

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 196

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Henry Miller

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Kami Garcia

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Neil Young