Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Wenn man nachts nicht schläft, werden Träume wahr.

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.