The advancement of mathematics is due to those who are driven not by the desire for application but by the joy of discovery.

Music is my life and my life is music.

I think it's important to have a good hard failure when you're young... I learned a lot from that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it, I've never had any fear in my whole life when we've been near collapse and so on. I've never been afraid.

"The only way to get better is to play against the best."