I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

If I had many who oppose me, it means I have stood for something sacred that only my heart knows.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.