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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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