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

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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.

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

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

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.