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.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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

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.

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

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