Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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.

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?

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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...