Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying.

When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.