More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

We have to fight the past to survive.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

The president of Mexico, or the ex-president, or whatever, whoever, who cares, he said, we will not even consider paying for the wall.

Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

I start thinking about the next movie before it's a success, so I can never have one moment of happiness or peace. I'm instantly thinking about the next one.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.