To play without passion is inexcusable!

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.