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.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
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.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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?
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
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.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.
Play it fuckin' loud!
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.