I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

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.'

I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

If you're still making art in your 30s you're either wadded or good - and I'm both.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.