Romain Rolland

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.