I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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.

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

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

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 New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Passions are the gales of life.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

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

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.