Music is in my DNA!

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.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

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

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I’m the king of the anthems.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

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.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

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.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

‚Jolene‘ has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I do my job like I breathe.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

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

I hate the idea of genres.