"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."

"I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents."

"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."

"I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am."

"The real danger is not that machines will think like us, but the spark that ignites the next industrial revolution, and we must be prepared for the consequences."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours."