Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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.