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

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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?

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

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

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

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