What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

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.

Physician heal thyself.

It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Old age is life's parody.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.