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.

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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

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.

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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.

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.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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.