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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

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

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.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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.

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...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.