Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I love the conversation between film and music.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Perhaps it was because his life as a human had been so happy and his life since becoming a vampire had been so lonely that Kian clung to any shred of humanity left in him.

Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.