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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Let silence be the art you practice.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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