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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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

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.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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.

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

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

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

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

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

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