我不是政治家。我是艺术家。我不必政治正确。

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

The work of art is a fragment of the divine.

促使人们倾向于和平的激情是对死亡的恐惧，对舒适生活必需品的渴望，以及通过自己的努力获得这些的希望。

In business, if you're not moving forward, you're falling behind.

痛苦是暂时的，但音乐是永恒的。