What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

You is getting nosier than a parker.

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

The reward of suffering is experience.

You just have to be careful because social media can begin to affect personal things such as relationships, just to pin point. People have become so entitled as it relates to social media.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Beauty is something inside of us. If you love yourself and accept yourself, that shows on the outside. Beauty is an act-it's how you carry yourself.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.