F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.