"I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music"

"Music is my religion"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"