The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.
What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.
Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.
The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.
I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.