Ich kann nicht mehr (I can do no more).

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

I am not from a political family. I never had the opportunity to meet the world leaders earlier.

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.