The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am, ’ to me before Igave him ID.”“It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.