Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
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.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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.
Let silence be the art you practice.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Play it fuckin' loud!
To play without passion is inexcusable!
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.