Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

I don't know what a collective is exactly. But maybe there's one guy who makes sure everything is clean. Maybe I'm that guy.

I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well, but he could write. My role was to compose things, but not really play it.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.

The spirit of man is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

I knew those feelings of wanting to be with another brother were not dead; they were just asleep.

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.