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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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.

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

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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

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

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