Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

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.

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.