A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.

At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.