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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.