My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

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

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I just like tattoos.

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.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

A Khaled record is always the best.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

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

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.