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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.