The public is a part of my real life.

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.

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.

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.