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?

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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