"I don't write modern music. I write good music."

"I never compose anything that I don't thoroughly understand."

"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right."

"I have always been a lonely man. I have always been a solitary man. I have always been a man who has lived in his own world."

"My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey."