I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
“I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.”
“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”