"I love a tree more than a man."

"I have no friend. I must live alone. I know that I am closer to God than other artists; I commune with Him in my art."

"I wish I had been born a century later."

"May God continue to give you the strength to build your temple of Isis, and may the pure fire there devour all your afflictions so that you may awake like a new phoenix."

"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."