Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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

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!

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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?

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

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

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

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