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

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

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

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

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

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

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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 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.