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

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?

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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

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

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.