To play without passion is inexcusable!

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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?

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