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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.