"What's Hecuba to him, or he to..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Conscience is a thousand swords.”

“To be direct and honest is not safe.”

“Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.”

“The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.”

“It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.”

“People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.”

“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

“I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.”

“Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.”