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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.