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

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

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

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

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.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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?

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.