“I've always lived in the moment.”

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

“I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.”

“I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.”

“Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole life like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.”

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”

“I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.”

“Let your every moment be always better than the past, you live in the present for the future, you live with love, music, happiness and above all courage in difficult times.”

“Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”