I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

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.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

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.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

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

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 don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I like Cardi B!

I hate the idea of genres.

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.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

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.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.

A chorus is not easy.

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Life is a song to me.

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’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

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 just want to keep writing music.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

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