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.'

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

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.