I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
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.
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.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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 one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.