“You never really want anything you can easily have.”

I’ve made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that’s gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Music is real; it’s something you can touch and feel. It moves you – the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you’re performing it. It’s not air, it’s not wind, it’s not anything like that. It’s solid. It’s thick. It’s like summertime in New York.

I never had innocence.

I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Anything can be painted without representation.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn’t have anything to do with me, but it’s just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.