Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

I can dodge bullets, baby!

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .