Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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 can change the world because it can change people.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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

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

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

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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 with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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