No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.

We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!