Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad 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.

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

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Music can change the world because it can change people.