The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Play it fuckin' loud!

The earth has music for those who listen.

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.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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.

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

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