The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

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

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

A chorus is not easy.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

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.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.