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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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?

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

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.

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.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.