My strength is my enthusiasm.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

The high note is not the only thing.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

It is better to be supportive than be superior.

It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.