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

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.

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

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.