I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.
People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

