We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Where there is hope there is life.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.