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

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

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.

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.