We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn’t even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

My music is a luxury.

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.