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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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