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.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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.

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.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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