I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Play it fuckin' loud!

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?