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

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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 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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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.

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

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

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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