All art of the past must be destroyed.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

We have to fight the past to survive.

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.

Killing of an innocent, alike killing of humanity.

Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made a mess you can’t clean up in a hurry.

Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.