I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Music is the space between the notes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefinitely.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.