过去从未死去，它甚至还未过去。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
——2005年2月24日 斯洛伐克首都布拉迪斯拉发，在与美国总统布什共同举行的记者招待会上就布什批评俄罗斯民主而发言
我从不写政治歌曲，歌曲拯救不了世界，我已经看透了一切。
一个最重大的错误，是以动机而不是结果来判断政策的得失。
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
诗歌是心灵的语言。