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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.