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.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

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

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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?

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.