One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

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

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

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

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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.

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

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?

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.