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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

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'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

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?

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

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

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