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.

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?

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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

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

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.

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

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.