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.

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.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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