Quotes

I was brought up in a Victorian family. I swear that, if I am born again, I am born a whore!

Rome is a city where people live. Milan a city where people work. In Rome I spend the money I earn in Milan.

Nobody loves Me. But perhaps it is not true.

The most important value of my life is integrity.

Fifty years old? I can not believe it! How many memories. How many tricks. How many very sweet petals of your generosity. So many hopes for your future of intelligence and skill. Thanks, Ottavio. God protect you. Always.

Among the jewels designed by Sottsass and Arnaldo Pomodoro, I also have a necklace of human fingers. I bought it from a tribe during a trip to New Guinea. I never dared to put it in public: I think I made a sacrilege. I'll leave it at the British Museum.

Today's young people need a blue print, for someone to tell them what to do, because today political situations are so dramatic, social situations are so perverse that they don't know what to think, what to do. (August 19, 2009).

Naples is the only capital of Italy because it is a city that gathers the typical qualities of a capital: extreme misery and extreme pomp. Aside from the natural beauty, which is not its merit, it has remained the Spanish grandeur and is the only city to add to this grandeur the allure of the great capital.

It is said that Fabrizio De Andrè is the Italian Bob Dylan, why not say that Dylan is the American Fabrizio?