In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

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.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

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

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

Music is like film to me.

I can’t act!

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

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.

Music is always a commentary on society.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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

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.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I always said that I wouldn’t use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I’ll hang it up.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

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.‘

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

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

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

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!