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.

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

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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.

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.

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?

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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