One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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.

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

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

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 earth has music for those who listen.

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.