If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It's such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you can do a white blood cell count and say, 'No, it's not looking good for that one.' It's impossible to have a loving relationship in which you never cause pain and no pain ever is caused to you.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.