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.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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.

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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