To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.