I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

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

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

As for my stuff, I’m just doing guest verses for other people’s records. I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

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

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Life is a song to me.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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.

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.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

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

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I’m an iPod person.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

How I love David Bowie.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘