I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

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

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

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.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

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.

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.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

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.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

Life is a song to me.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

A letter does not blush.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Music is really driving my whole life.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.