It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

It's sometimes tiring to get off a long-haul flight and go straight to the studio for a shoot, but if you really plan everything well, you can get so much out of combining travel with work.

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Again, having - fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.