A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
I'm not too interested in books about India.
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.
My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
