I love the conversation between film and music.

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

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.

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

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.

Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Justice comes before charity.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

Nothing is always absolutely so