The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.

Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels like a relationship that is actually working.

I think we need to do much more with our tech companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives from being able to use the Internet to radicalize, even direct people in America and Europe and elsewhere.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.