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.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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.

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

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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

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

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.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.