Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

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

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

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.

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.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

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

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

I’m the king of the anthems.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

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

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I’m committed to the fight game.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

I can dance to just about anything.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

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.

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.

No, I can’t do rap music!

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.