Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

That was the first night I dreamed of Eward Cullen.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.