Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

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

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

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.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

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

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I can dance to just about anything.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

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.

I’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‚You Are So Beautiful‘ and Eric Clapton’s ‚Wonderful Tonight‘ – songs that go straight to the point.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

I believe in singing.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

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.

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

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

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.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

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

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Not all those who wander are lost.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.