Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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.

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.

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.