I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.