“We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.”

“I'm an un-healable positive optimist.”

“The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab ...”

“I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.”

“I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.”

“The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”

“Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things...”

“In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?”

“What is it about human nature that when we are touched in a way that is life changing we want to share the experience with others. I have to think it is about bringing gifts from spirit back to the...”

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatev...”

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of th...”