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

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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.

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!

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.