Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

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

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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