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

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.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

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.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Music can change the world because it can change people.