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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

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

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

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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.

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

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

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

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.