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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

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

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

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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