Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

The high note is not the only thing.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality.

Be very optimistic about your dream until the length and roughness of its road become highly irrelevant in your mind.

As life unfolds, remember that all the answers are found in Christ.

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.