Robert M. Pirsig

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

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

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.