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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Shakespeare is universal.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.