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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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

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

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

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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