I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

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.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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 make good music for long journeys.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

History is written by the victors.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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 think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Music is always a commentary on society.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.