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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.