Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

Exterminate all the brutes!

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

My music lives because of real players.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

I had always broken the rules.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.