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.

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.

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.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.