Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Being on the edge is always worse than going through.

I’m still thanking all the stars, one by one.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.