“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”

“Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.”

“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are part of that.”

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

“There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.”

“The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being.”

“Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself.”

“An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It’s more important than anyone else could ever be. I don’t want to be overly dramatic and say it’s the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I’ve always been able to rely on. So why wouldn’t it be the most important thing in my life?”