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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

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