The most important political development of the last half century has been the spread of liberal democracy around the world.

Never stop learning, because the world never stops changing.

勇气是正义的首要品质。

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Music is my way of communicating with the world.