"I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum."

“I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.”

“I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.”

“In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.”

Source : John Robbins (2010). “The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less”, p.220, Ballantine Books

“If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.”

“Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.”

“It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.”

“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.”

“I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job”