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.

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.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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.

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

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

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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