If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

I make good music for long journeys.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

I love good, loud speakers.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I just want to keep writing music.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

I’m a free spirit.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Music is always a commentary on society.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.