I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.