To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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 with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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.

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

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

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

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time