This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

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

There are some loony people in this world!

We don’t make music – it makes us.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

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.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

It’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

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

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.