When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I love the conversation between film and music.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

One day you're the leader of Iraq, the next day you're being checked for fleas on Fox News.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

The restaurant industry is brutal.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.