Alan Rickman

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.