I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

Not all stories end happily nor tragically. Most of them just need to be continued.

The journey of life is unique for every one.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.