When we separate music from life we get art.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

Don't spend your money till you have it.

I don't take myself too seriously.