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

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

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

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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.

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?

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.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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.

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

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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.