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.

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.

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.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.