Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

If I build own language... will be better because I always will end up making new words.

I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Faith is a decision we make about where we are going to put our trust.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.