When you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged.

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

I've been on every diet in the world. The best one is the BBC diet: Buy Bigger Clothes.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

Develop a depression.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.