With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.