An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination it becomes my life and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection which makes us believe and it is not true that as children we were imaginative?

Humor starts like a wildfire but then continues on smoldering smoldering for years.

We love a good hyped sound but when it starts to sound insincere that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music even if it sounds polished doesn't sound insincere.

When you put something out there into the world there's all these words you don't want to hear that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro reinvent recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying emulating.

Well I'm like a drug addict I'm always saying I'm going to stop and then I don't what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home it starts with the parental influence.

Home is where one starts from.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

The future starts today not tomorrow.

It's funny because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested my mind just starts creating new dishes - click click click.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point as an actor when you do know better and that is when the fear starts.

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family and it starts with the Queen herself.