When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

Sarie is such a comely girl, " he said to them, "even the evil spirits will be heartbroken to see her hurt."- King Chuka

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.