Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

Art speaks to the soul, not the mind.

I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.

You know, if we’re speaking on a cosmic level, you’re never in a better place than you are in the current moment.

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.

There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.