Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.

No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.

I have moments, like a guy saying to me on the tube, "You know, you look a lot like Jessie Ware."

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.