It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

choose your words well(be honest, be true)butabove all else, be kind

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

The life of men is painful.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.