Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!