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

The earth has music for those who listen.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

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

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

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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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.

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.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.