Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Diamonds are the result of extreme pressures. So is success.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

I also like Juliette Lewis - I think she's great.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.