"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it."

“When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”

“I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.”

Source : "Mika's New Album Out Today!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 22, 2009.

“There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.”

“Too many people, right now are playing it small. If you want to be SUCCESSFUL, Live BIG, Think BIG, & make every day of your life COUNT!”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 10, 2015

“The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.”

“Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

“I wanted to take part in the Women's Aid Real Man campaign because domestic violence affects so many women and children during their lifetime and I think it is important to stand up against what is often a hidden crime.”