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.

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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.

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

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.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.