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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

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

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

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

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.