最大的风险是世界在变化时我们停滞不前。

"Only through suffering does one understand the depth of life."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

I have so much admiration for women who are fearless and unapologetic about who they are.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The struggles I've been through, the pain I've endured, it all comes out in my music.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.