"Wagner has some great moments, but a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“It is better to support schools than jails.”

“How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!”

“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”

“It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”

“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.”

“Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.”

“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”

“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”

“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”