“Staying away from Hollywood didn't take much of an effort, there is a whole world in Los Angeles that's based on maneuvering. You say the right thing in interviews, you say yes to the right events and charities, and if you do it correctly you become someone they talk about. You become a player in the system and you're looked at as a professional, or dedicated, or whatever. You become a part of their thing, and they become part of yours… It's a wild web that can be weaved and there are people who love, love, love to play that game. And I'm not putting it down. But for me, it's just like pulling teeth. I just could never do it.”

“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

“Interviewer says "How do you become a member of the World/Inferno Friendship Society?"”

“you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.”

“What you do and what you love just becomes a part of you, if you're lucky.”

“A. No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.
Q. You mean to say that all of the accidental environmental sounds that surround the piece become a part of the realization of the score?
A. Yes, that's right.
Q. In that case, even the chairs are musical?
A. Yes. In fact, there is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical.”

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”

“Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose you
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose you.”

“I wanted something that was direct – right to you eye.... something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away.”

“But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.”