Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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.