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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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.

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

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

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.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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.

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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