"I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."

"I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me."

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

"The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass."

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."

"My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live."

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

"I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."

"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."