I like Cardi B!

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I’m an iPod person.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

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

Jesters do often prove prophets.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

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.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

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.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

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.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

No, I can’t do rap music!

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

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

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.