As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

The voice of protest is the voice of another and an ancient civilization which seems to have bred in us the instinct to enjoy and fight rather than to suffer and understand.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.