"To know music is to transfer it..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“Love never claims, it ever gives.”

“Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.”

“When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.”

“The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.”

“When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.”

“I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.”

“Being a woman is hard work.”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”

“The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.”