I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

A good song never gets old.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I like to work.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I like Cardi B!

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I like school and I like learning.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.