One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.