Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
No one ever erected a statue of a critic.
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.
Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.