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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.