One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Chansons possibles ou impossibles

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

[Donald] Trump met with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who has in the past compared Trump's rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.