Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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?

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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.