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

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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?

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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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.

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

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.