An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

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

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.

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