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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

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