Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)

And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?” Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.