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

Exterminate all the brutes!

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.

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.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

The impatient man is his own enemy

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

I never asked anybody to take me seriously.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.