I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

There are no musically untalented people.

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

When I say 'friends, ' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

Please do not lose the ability to dream

Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.