It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.