You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.