Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

That is the spirit of the music: to not leave anyone out, to be inclusive.

We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.

The spirit of punk-cabaret is that you feel that you can truly be all of who you are.

The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

Real intimacy is a product of solitude.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.