I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

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

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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.