I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

We love things we love what they are.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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 believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Philosophy is the highest music.

I hate the idea of genres.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.