Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse!

I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.