“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest… my blood… my compass… my love…”

“I'll kiss the ground.
I'll tell my mother,
I'll tell my father,
I'll tell my loved one,
I'll tell my brothers
How much I love them.”

“Music is my love. And because it is my love, music has become my religion.”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.”

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”

“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.”

“My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"

She married a house?”

“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”