He fell like a chicken into the soup.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

I fully support global commerce.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.