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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

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.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Play it fuckin' loud!

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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.

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?

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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