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

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.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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?

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