"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

"We are all the heroes of our own stories, and sometimes the villains too."

The most necessary, the most important, the principal, the most essential thing for a musician is this: to know what he wants, what he can do, and what he ought to do.