Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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 can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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.