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

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 literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

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.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.