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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

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

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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