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

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.

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

My strength is my enthusiasm.

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.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.