Pablo Casals

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.