As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.

Just let me live my life.

I wish I could have built without destroying things.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.

Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Umica ka hanuHOLD THE BREATHBe patient

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.