Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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