I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

Know that positive change is possible. It might not happen right away, but if you change your broadcast to them, that can have an effect on how they view the world.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.