"I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing."

“To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever,”

Source : Chris Botti (2008). “Best of Chris Botti Songbook: Trumpet Artist Transcriptions”, p.4, Hal Leonard

“I had in mind a case close to my family, friends of my parents, who seemed to be the perfect bourgeois family, and a young boy, who when he was 17, committed suicide. It was such a shock. The parents didn't understand. Nobody understood why he did that. Everybody was exploring his life, trying to understand what the problem was. Everybody had a feeling that this guy had the perfect life: he was beautiful, he was clever... but he did that. I had that in mind, about Isabelle in Young and Beautiful, for the parents to see adolescents like aliens.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.”

“God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.”

“It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution which has its object the support and diffusion of religion”

Source : "On Civil Liberty and Self-government".

“Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.”

“One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“I can't give a decent toast to save my life.”