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

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

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

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

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.