You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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?
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside