"Music is the voice that tells us..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”

“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

“The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot”

“I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.”

“Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.”

“Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.”

“Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.”

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”

“The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.”