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

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

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.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

A Khaled record is always the best.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The song ‚Innocent‘ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

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.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

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

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

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.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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.

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.