“I went to an airport and asked for a wheelchair. There were three of us in wheelchairs and only two porters, so the guy took two of us at the same time. I cannot tell you how humiliating that is.”

“This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.”

“Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”

“You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.”

“We too often laughed at the same time to be a whore and a lonely guy.”

“...Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.”

“There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.”